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Daily Life in Wartime Iraq

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Journalist Dahr Jamail gives us an up-close look at daily life in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Jamail is one of the few unaffiliated, unembedded journalists covering the war in Iraq. His new book is Beyond the Green Zone.

Dahr Jamail’s website and blog
SLIDESHOW: Beyond The Green Zone


Comments

  • [1] Norman from New York January 29, 2008 - 12:23PM

    Some of his reports described the American forces being really brutal to Iraqi civilians. Is that right?


  • [2] Steve from Manhattan January 29, 2008 - 12:30PM

    Leonard - please ask how much of the reduction in voilence is due to the ethnic cleansing being largely complete. Thanks.


  • [3] ab January 29, 2008 - 12:32PM

    The reduction is due to people being bought off...like they said...temporary solution


  • [4] World's Toughest Milkman from the_C_train January 29, 2008 - 12:34PM

    Is Iraq similar to what happened in Panama years ago, but obviously on a much larger scale?


  • [5] ab January 29, 2008 - 12:35PM

    It's disgraceful that the mainstream corporate media has not really shown this war in it's ugly entirety


  • [6] esther serebryanski from new york January 29, 2008 - 12:44PM

    can anyone really know what is happening if it is filtered through an interpreter?


  • [7] enzo from NYC January 29, 2008 - 01:35PM

    Death Squads!?

    I expected them when Negroponte of the Central American Death Squads and Iran-Contra was brought to Iraq, but this is the first I heard about them.

    U.S. Tanks blowing off civilians' limbs?! U.S. Snipers targeting civilians? CNN sitting on the footage?!

    The corporate consolidated US Media is killing our democracy!

    What about the mysterious death of Nicholas Berg, one of the first Americans taken hostage?

    A 'freelance' cellphone tower installer in Iraq... doesn’t make sense.

    And he met Zacharias Mousaoui, 'by chance' lending him his Hotmail account.

    His beheading footage had him in a Guantanomo jump suit, and the prison and guards looked like Abu Ghraib's.

    The sound was obviously dubbed, kind of like the recent Hormuz Strait 'Philippino Monkey' pysop (against the US like Tonkin) where the Iranian speedboats were faked as threatening the US warships.

    Why & who sent Anthrax Attack "person of interest" Stephen Hatfill to Iraq in 2003 to make a full scale model mobile Anthrax lab -- so the troops could recognize what they were looking for. Couldn't the troops use a drawing? After this happened, the FBI's Hatfill investigation.

    I think hero Ambassador Joseph Wilson's op-ed put too much heat on the Bush2 administration in the summer of 2003 for a planted lab. His wife would have debunked it, too.

    Who tipped the White House off to take Cipro before Anthrax was received at the DC P.O.s?

    'Aspens turn in clusters...' after all.


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